This book needs one to have an open mind to read and assimmilate. The books such as Ramayana and mahabharata are very influential and Ranganayakamma says the same. I find the treatment of Ramayana is deep and incisive. It is of paramount importance that we understand the questions raised by her and think....that it self is progress ( it is immaterial if the author is right or wrong). What I really admire in the author is the candor in which her Point of Views are expressed. We as civilized society will need to abstain from personally attacking the author. I also hope, we embrace and read various sources she mentioned in the book and read the works of various philosophers (east and west). I understood the author to be having an Intent of well-being of the society and her utopian society...and her anguish of how the majority do not think through those issues.....